What is affordable housing? | Part 1: The Problem
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2022
- The government defines affordable housing as rent or mortgage that costs less than 30% of a person's income.
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My goodness when did Atlanta Georgia and Florida get just like NYC..
As far as housing is concerned....
my thoughts are with those who try every day to do better but with a system so broken it feels impossible to break the barrier.
This is part of why Georgia wants to shut down trump. They want the drama and don't want trump to bring back jobs or the economy that would change things and scru up plans.
So.terribly sad that Georgians are being used ..
Regulate the HOA fees would help. In California, I’ve seen condos for sale for $250k, but the hoa fees were $4,000!!
The lack of affordable housing is happening everywhere across the USA and in many countries globally. It's almost becoming a dystopian reality for millions of people seeking places to live.
Something has got to be done by government! The price of cars and homes are not where they should be if adjusting for age and inflation they are way way overpriced! Why? Because people keep buying. Weve also got a boom of "real estate" investors looking to get wealth quick. We need non competitive homes built these would rent and sell and realistic prices but would be so much less that real estate investors would have to start competing or nobody would pay the asking rates. This has worked in other countries in the past. It does make sense if you think about it.
The only thing that we can suggest is to move to a rural area work from home buy some land put a used or new manufacturer home on it and pay 600 to 800 a month and live a good life
That might work for some people, but it certainly doesn't solve the problem. Most people can't afford to move, or can't move away from family members who need them, or cannot work from home, or don't have the money to buy land or build even a cheap manufactured home. When rent is taking up so much of your income there isn't much room to save up that kind of money. If you've worked for years to get a decent position at your job you can't always just switch to something else without taking a hit on your income, which makes it harder to move away to somewhere cheaper. A lot of jobs have zero work from home options. It's really just not a solution for most people, and those are the folks getting stuck with nowhere to live.
An RV or a small camper would work too.
It's kinda like saying protect and serve... Serve whom? Similar here I guess, Affordable for whom? Them to maintain?
So many apartments and houses buildings and yet no where to move homeless shelters and still you can afford to move
My Aim is to help out Honest and Good people like her.. Please let me know how I can assist.
Should urban centers be required to do local census instead of relying on census data every ten years and projecting. The issue of affordable housing can be partially rooted in lack of information and lack of supply and development.
They have been talking about this shit for years and nothing ever happens. It's a fucking shame but what else can your expected from our elected representatives
Hopefully it will start next year under a new administration.
Not affordable for a certain group
My off the grid home in Hawaii.
Here is the clearest explanation of what is causing the loss of affordable housing and what to do about it. This is a talk by University of British Columbia professor Patrick Condon making the case for the public capture of the annual rental value of land and the exemption of buildings from the tax base: ua-cam.com/video/24vf2c9AIwQ/v-deo.html
Learn more: www.youtube.com/@corporatefactsinc
You gave a definition for affordable housing and then attempted to put someone earning minimum wage into a non-affordable position. Nobody works minimum wage for 15 damn years (for when you started complaining about the housing unit). Are roommates not a thing for those earning minimum wage?
Why not start a free program to teach personal finances, banking, and what education gets the best job for the cost. Teach how to think about money and how the system worx.
It’s politics. A very negative type at that, designed to keep you trapped. Democrats measure their success by the number of people who are on welfare and public assistance. But we know welfare does little to nothing to help people in the long run because they haven’t been taught how to deal with money. Teaching people about finances, money management, investing, getting better education, getting a better job, and making their own destiny come true is much better for long term success. Republicans measure their success by the number of people who aren’t on welfare/public assistance and have the skills to hold their own. Bottom line, stop voting Democrat. If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Come tomorrow, he’ll be back to ask you for another fish. If you teach him how to fish, he can get his own meals and you’ll never see him again. He has no need to bother you. The Democrats aren’t too concerned with teaching people how to fish, if you know what I mean. They tell you they will give you help they can never deliver in exchange for your vote. They get into office and never help you anyway. Think about that. Learn what it takes to help yourself. There are tools and resources out there to really help you, but ultimately, the choice to go find them is yours. So is the choice to make them work for you. Maybe that’s not what you wanted to hear but it’s true. The only person who can make you a success is you. If you’re dependent on your livelihood through handouts from others and you never make the choice to get the tools and resources to rise above the handouts, you’re stuck and you will never rise any further. When the people giving the handouts cut you off, and they will cut you off eventually due to budgetary concerns, regime change, etc., and you’re not prepared, YOU will be the one to end up homeless. When you’re out there on the streets blind, crippled, broke, crazy, smelling and looking like an unkempt dog, no one’s going to want to take the time to invest in cleaning you up. You’re no longer presentable and you no longer have potential. No one cares anymore. You’re done and people die in that condition.
@@leroyjenkins4811 IK, I am trying to spark thought, plant seeds. The schools are the base problem, they are teaching victimhood instead of individualality.
Because knowing how money works doesn't really help much when people make so little that they have no money to "make work". The system is the problem, that's why it keeps getting worse. Wages are too low, living costs are too high, the wealth gap is getting wider. You can't expect the entire working class population to financially game their way out of this issue, that's just not how our economy works. More and more money is being held at the very top and there is less to go around for everyone else. We don't control that, the system does.
@@DimaRakesah I politely disagree, knowledge is Power. US is the one place anyone from any economic background, race and gender, can succeed. Why else are 10s of thousands coming from elsewhere to US monthly?
The problem… low income people tend to destroy places. There are some people that wouldn’t… but drugs are why many are low income. This means crime.
Maybe they can move to Mexico?… I hear it is affordable there.
With what money are they going to use move??? other countries have solved this by not making housing a commodity but a human right that's how you solve homelesses.
You like white people in trailer parks who destroy everything & bring drugs & crime to those trailer parks !
gross comment
@@C_1999 walk… the illegal’s seem to do it real well
What the Chicago area learned is that low-income Section 8 vouchers became attractive when those property investors realized market rate tenants lost jobs during the pandemic. So, no one cared anymore about how marginalized Chicago had been, as long as they kept "low-income" people out of their communities. The pandemic didn't care and made many have to understand what "low or no" income means. It is incumbent upon us all to provide basic human needs to everyone. Locking certain groups into government prescribed "low-income" slums is not the answer, where people are forced to live in deplorable and inhabitable conditions. Their investors/landlords buy up the properties in communities where there is little to no investment and do the bare minimum to make them Section 8 approvable, so they collect the guaranteed rents, while living in the affluent suburbs. Yet when the pandemic hit communities that prohibited Section 8 vouchers (aka low-income), figured out how to keep the mortgages paid. Now many are trying to figure out what has happened to Chicago? Well, what was confined to very specific areas, and no one cared, is now all over the city. Discriminatory economic deprivation is bound to affect us all at some point and live right next door. It is incumbent upon us all to care that everyone has the right to decent housing without strategically placing people based on income alone.